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The rise of buy now, pay later products, which often aren’t reported to credit bureaus, could affect borrowers’ ability to buy a home and sustain homeownership.
Fighting Housing Discrimination in 2019 Facebook’s approach to housing ads illustrates how housing discrimination continues to evolve.Proposal to Restrict SNAP Time Limit Waivers Should Consider Factors beyond Unemployment Rates The proposed rule would make it more difficult for states to obtain waivers and subject more people to work requirements in areas with limited economic opportunities.Harsher Penalties Won’t Stop Gun Violence in DC Last month, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced plans to partner with federal prosecutors to shift prosecution for certain “felon-in-possession” firearm offenses out of the local DC court system and into the federal justice system.Dismantling the Harmful, False Narrative That Homelessness Is a Choice This myth enables apathy and maintains the nation’s status quo of too many people experiencing homelessness in an affordable housing crisis.How Cloud Computing Is Taking Our Tax Policy Analysis to New Heights (and Speeds) Cloud computing allows us to test thousands of tax policy variations in just a few hours.New Data Confirm the Urgency of Addressing the Expiration of the GSE Patch The "GSE patch" disproportionately benefits minority and lower-income borrowers.
